Nelia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Nelia är en kortform av → Cornelia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nelia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 6.3K
- BRBrazil1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈60,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Nelia är en kortform av → Cornelia. Namnet användes under 1800-talet i främst södra Sverige.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nelia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #383 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Nelia | 68 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,165 | 1 in 41K | 6.2K | Nelia | 79 |
| US United States | — | 3,315 | 1 in 100K | 3.3K | Nelia | 231 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,777 | 1 in 14K | 2.8K | — | 1 |
| PT Portugal | #376 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | listed | Nelia | 56 |
| NO Norway | — | 370 | 1 in 15K | 1.3K | Nelia | 13 |
| UY Uruguay | #478 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Nelia | 15 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nelia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Elly den Haan-Groenb. 1918NLnot in their usual nameDutch mayor
- Nélia Paulab. 1930BRBrazilian actress
- Nelia Novoab. 1992DEGerman actress
- Nélia Barbosab. 1998FRFrench paracanoeist
- Nelia Székelyfilm editor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 72 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 6.2K | #2,916 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 5.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.1K | #2,681 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.3K | #5,239 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.8K | #327 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2.8K | #327 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.3K | #1,408 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 370 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 42 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 41 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 23 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23 | #2,681 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nelia mean?
- Recorded meaning: Nelia är en kortform av → Cornelia.
- Is Nelia a male or female name?
- Nelia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Nelia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Nelia in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nelia.
- How common is the name Nelia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 5,165 people named Nelia in 2022, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
- How common is Nelia compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Nelia is the 383rd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neliaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nelia” — the 383rd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.